If you are always on Twitter, take nomakeupselfies, find someone adorkable or live in a gaybourhood, best selling dictionary Collins wants you to vote for the latest word on the tweet

OMG! Twitter users have been asked to choose the next word to add to the Collins English Dictionary.

In a world first, the social media site which brought the humble “hashtag” out of IT wilderness, is now responsible for influencing the way we speak.

If you know an adorkable fractivist who is hooked on duckface felfies and lives in a gaybourhood, it’s likely that your vote will define which word will be included in the twictionary.

Collins has tracked thousands of words used on Twitter this year to uncover new and emerging ones that are likely to make their way into the nation’s speech.

And experts have compiled a shortlist of nine with just one making history by becoming the first word voted by Twitter users to be included in an English dictionary.

Words on the tweet for the 12th edition of the best selling reference book are:

Adorkable - dorky in an adorable way

Duckface - the traditional “pouting” facial expression in selfies

Euromaidan - the original pro-Europe protests in Ukraine, named for Maidan Square in Kiev

Fatberg - a large, greasy mass of drain clogging waste

Felfie - a farmer selfie

Fracktivist - an anti-fracking protestor

Gaybourhood - a gay-friendly neighbourhood

Nomakeupselfie - a selfie of a woman without her make-up, posted online to raise awareness for a charity

Vaguebooking - posting deliberately vague status updates on a social networking site with the intention of prompting a response

Twitter users can decide on the nation's next new word

Twitter fans have until midnight on May 28 to vote at twictionary.collinsdictionary.com for their number one word to enter the language when the new edition hits shelves in October.

Andrew Freeman, associate publishing director at Collins said: “Twitter offers us an immediate snapshot of how much a word is used.

“The tried and tested approach to compiling dictionaries has to adapt to embrace the ways in which language is developing through use on social media, and this is a fun way to get Twitter users involved in defining the English language.”

Lucy Mangan collinsdictionary.com blogger added: “Twitter is the perfect place to find out what people are really saying and how they’re saying it.

“It’s a space in which you’re freer than almost anywhere else to combine old words, resurrect others or invent totally new ones whenever the need arises. #brilliant.”

Collins has a database of more than 4.5 billion word definitions and the dictionary’s consultant editor Ian Brookes said social media will play a larger role in adding new words and colour to the way we speak.

“Language has always had to develop in response to changes in society and technology,” he said.

“New words have come into effect to describe the specific things people do on social media - tweet, hashtag, unfollow. Moreover, social media also facilitate new ways of spending our leisure time, such as social gaming and couchsurfing, which in turn bring more new vocabulary into the language.”

* You can follow the Mirror’s resident grammar bores tweeting about words ­­

@TheMirrorStyle. Send your own new word nominations to twictionary.collinsdictionary.com until May 28.